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India’s Captain Fresh more than doubles valuation to $500 million in three months
Captain Fresh, a farm-to-retail platform for animal protein, has more than doubled its valuation to $500 million in three months as the Indian startup deepens its footprints in the local market and...
Samsung suspends product shipments to Russia
Samsung Electronics has suspended shipments of all products to Russia “due to the current geopolitical developments,” the company said on Saturday. “We continue to actively monitor this co...
Aston Martin to develop battery cell technology with Britishvolt
British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with lithium-ion battery cell technologies company Britishvolt. The companies will work together towards developing bat...
TikTok suspends content in Russia in response to ‘fake news’ law
TikTok is suspending livestreaming and new content to its video service in response to Russia’s new ‘fake news’ law, the company said on Sunday. The law, which the lower chamber o...
Tracking the future of crypto controversy
Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about the environmental impacts of crypto with Kimbal Musk, early Tesla investor and brother of Elon. This week, I’m tal...
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Fintech Roundup: Banks beginning to view fintechs as frenemies
Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in betw...
Indian fintech CredAvenue turns unicorn with fresh $137 million funding
Debt marketplace CredAvenue, which helps businesses and enterprises secure debt from lenders, has become the fastest Indian fintech startup to join the unicorn club, it said on Sunday. The two-year...
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Welcome to the it’s-so-subtle pivot season
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To g...
This Week in Apps: Apps blocking Russia, Walmart adds virtual try-on, Netflix’s trivia game
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a...
Ukraine, API startups and startup valuations
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Uganda in the spotlight as country’s startups captivate YC, Google
The startup ecosystem in Africa has until now been dominated by Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt (‘the Big 4’), countries that continue to receive the bulk of venture capital and other forms ...
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A look inside Founders Fund, as it closes on $5 billion across two new funds
Founders Fund has garnered a lot of money from investors; it has also returned quite a bit of capital. A lot of the action on both fronts has happened very recently. Yesterday, the 17-year-old outf...
Daily Crunch: Ransomware group threatens to release Nvidia’s ‘most closely guarded secrets’
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It’s pivot season for early-stage startups
Early-stage startups still have access to ample capital, giving them a VC bubble that somewhat protects them from rapid changes in the greater economy. But that bubble is changing shape.
TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 views on Epic-Bandcamp deal, SPAC letdown, CIO sales strategy
You are more likely to close a sale if you have actionable insights into your prospective customer’s needs. But for enterprise software startups, this presents a special problem.
Infrastructure is broken, Gecko is using robotics to help fix it
Gecko Robotics’ mission statement is “To protect today’s critical infrastructure, and give form to tomorrow’s.” It’s certainly the sort of thing that rings true in the startup’s home town of ...
Winnie has a new plan to help childcare centers scale care
When Winnie was first founded in 2016 by Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall, it was focused on childcare solutions built for parents. “The other SaaS solutions in the childcare space have gone after th...
How quickly do enterprise tech firms need to grow to satisfy today’s investors?
A half-dozen enterprise stocks reported earnings, but with the world in turmoil this week, the stock market gave them kind of a rough reception.
Samsung says it will release an update to address app throttling issues
Samsung has addressed complaints that the tech giant is throttling the performance of thousands of apps on some of its Android phones. In a statement sent to TechCrunch, a spokesperson for the comp...
In the metaverse, responsible AI must be a priority
Language technology powered by AI can perpetuate bias if we are not careful. We need to be sure that language AI is trained to be ethical as well.